I know very well the differences between Gnome/KDE and GTK/Qt and I know Konsole. But the problem is Konsole, although supporting 256 color space, does not support modifying colors 16-21, which is needed to make base16-shell and base16-vim work properly. There is workarounds but the thing is I'd rather use terminal emulator I know works than change my configuration on twelve or so servers I manage.

I'd gladly use something like urxvt as I did before gnome terminal, but it doesn't display all glyphs right that e.g vim-airline uses. Otherwise urxvt would be perfect. Tilda would be another possibility, but it doesn't work under wayland. Guake/Yaguake seems too heavy for my tastes.

All is good after sourcing `vte.sh` manually, except:
- I don't like the gnome style titlebar (although it takes less space).
- I cannot get fonts to render properly.
- My custom prompt for showing git status information does not work

First one is moot point but the other two are show stoppers. For now at least.